New Delhi: Yet another Indian national, a doctor, is refusing to leave Ukraine without his ‘kids’. His ‘kids’ are four-legged pets and belong to the cat family. Just another thing, the cats are bigger – a jaguar and a panther!
“I called the (Indian) embassy but didn’t get a proper response. My place is surrounded by the Russians but I’m trying my best. I treat them (pets) as my kids,” the stranded Indian national, Dr Girikumar Patil said, according to news agency ANI.
Donbas | An Indian doctor Girikumar Patil famously known as Jaguar Kumar refuses to leave Ukraine without his pet jaguar & panther
“I called Embassy but didn’t get a proper response. My place is surrounded by Russians but I’m trying my best. I treat them like my kids,” he says pic.twitter.com/Ou5bT4bsN3
— ANI (@ANI) March 7, 2022
According to a BBC report, Dr Patil hails from Tanuku, in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari district and went to the eastern European nation in 2007 to study medicine. The report further said he bought the animals from the Kyiv zoo about 20 months ago, adding that while the jaguar is a 20-months-old male, the panther is a female which is aged six months.
Dr Patil, who is 40 and has a YouTube channel named ‘Jaguar Kumar Telugu,’ currently lives in the small town of Severodonetsk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas, the report added. Earlier, the Andhra Pradesh native was living in Luhansk, one of the two regions recognised as ‘independent’ by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 21.
